Improved washing-machine



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CHARLES r. DODGE',

or NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 95,573, dated October 5, 1869.

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The Schedule referred. to :in these Letters Patent and making part ofthesame.

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Figure 2, a plan of the same, with a box that enuloses the gearing,andserves as a-support for the attachment of a wringer, removed..

Similar letters of reference indicatev corresponding parts.

My invention relates to a well-known description of washing-machine; andconsists in a special construction of certain parts, whereby increasedfacility is afforded for itting together or taking apart the machine,and space reduced in packing the same for transportation.

Referring to thevaccompanying.drawing- A represent-s the tub of thewasher, which may be covered by loose or hinged lids, arranged on eitherside ofa cross-bar, B, that is secured by screws made to pass throughthe sides of the tub, said bar serving to carry, by4 suitable bearingsthereon, the operatingshaft (t, with its crank or handle, b, andbevel-pinion c, by which the revolving-stirrer C is driven through abevel-pinion, d, cuits vertical shaft, e.

Said stirrer is made up of a,v diskand wings that operate in connectionwith vertical ribs, arranged on or around the inside of the tub, or itmay otherwise be suitably constructed.

vD is a box or barrel-shaped covering, set on topvof the bar B, andserving to enclose the gearing, also answering as a support for theattachment of a wringer by or through a rib, jl

Such constitutes an ordinary land well-known description ofwashing-machine that, while perfect as regards its working-qualities,presents, as the same has heretofore been constructed,.certaindifficulties or objections, as regards fitting together or taking apartand packing of said machines for transportation, which it is the objectci" my invention to remove.

Thus, it has been customary to attach vvthe box or barrel-like coveringD, by pins made permanent in the barB, and arranged to project upwardthrough the box for Aholding down nuts to screwbn their upper ends. v

This is objectionable, bot-h as to the fitting and taking apart themachine, inasmuch as the box is apt to stick on the pins as well as tothe surfaceof the bar B, but mainly on account ofthe projection of saidpins above the lids or upper edge of the tub,4 that not only interfereswith the packing of the machines in the crates they are usuallytransported, but exposes y them to being bent or broken, if leftuncovered, by the box D, which, accordingly, is left secured to itsplace on the bar B, that cannot very conveniently be removed, or,'ifdetached, requires some skill and considerable labor to fit the partstogether again, owing to the upper journal of the stirrer-shaft e beinginvariably below the driving-pinion d, which, accordingly,

would have to be first taken oi. f

All these difculties I obviate, first, by substituting for the fast pinsand upper nuts, which hate been used to hold the barrel or box D to thebar, thumb-screws f f', capable of operation from above, and arranged toscrew into fixed nuts or boxes, g g, connected with lthe bar' B, so thaton unscrewing and lifting out or removing said thumb-screws, the box Dis at liberty to be taken oli, .and no fastening-pins are leftprojecting or standing.

Furthermore, the upper journal, h, to the vertical stirrer-shaft e,I-arrange above the pinion Land connect it with the bar B, so that ontaking out the end screws, which, secure said bar to the tub, andraising the bar, the journal h is slipped oli or over the shalt e,withoutany disturbance of the -pinion d;

By this construction I am enabled to, detach and' pack within the tubboth the box D and the bar B, with its attachments, and so incline ortilt the stirrer and its shaft as that the whole arereadily stowed away;

within the tub, and below the upper edge thereof, which, in packing anumber of such machines within a crate, largely econoinizes space andreduces freight,

also albrds protection against breakage or injury, n0ris thisaccompanied by any difficulty in fitting the parts together on arrivalat their destination or placing of the machines in working order on themarket.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the box or barrel D of the machine, and cross-barB, of the thumb-screws f f', arranged to enter from above, and made tolit boxes or nuts connected with said bar, substantially as shown anddescribed.

GRAS. F. DODGE.

Witnesses FRED. HAYNES, HENRY PALMER.

